With the new Nokia Communicators on the way (sorry the 9300 is a Smartphone, I forgot...) Dale Hubbard has set up a little home from home, dedicated to the Series 80 devices. Have a look at 9500 Communicator.
Spiderman, Spiderman, Does whatever a spider can. But is the N-Gage's Spiderman 2 any good? Chris Rydberg puts down the comic books to review his hero.
The updated PtG website is now online (reports the Arena Forum). Expect it to shift onto the main Nokia server in a few days, but in the meantime have a look at it here.
See your PC on your UIQ device. Control and access information as if your PC was running inside your phone. That's the promise Bitween's Remote Control makes, and with the second version just released, it's still delivering.
Ewan's been taking a look at the latest Racing Game for the N-Gage. Read his thoughts on Asphalt before climbing into your Jaguar to race round Paris in the free demo from Nokia.
More thoughts from Russ Beattie, this time on the thorny issue of Piracy of N-Gage MMC Games. It's no huge secret that if you want the MMC Games, you can find them online and load up a massive MMC card, and we're wondering what Nokia can do about it. But Russ has another thought - that the easy availability of games is actually helping the N-Gage unit sales. What it's doing to the Developers bottom line I guess depends on the licencing contract with Nokia, but all the developers we've talked to are happy to continue working on new N-Gage titles. Somewhere the spreadsheet must be balancing out...
Lonely Cat Game have ported over their popular e-mail client from Series 60 to UIQ. Profimail uses a custom UI to maximise screen space for reading and dealing with email. Features include synchronisation of messages with a mail server, support for attachments and HTML messages, built in file viewer, zip viewer and image viewer, rules for filtering and selective message download and more. Well worth investigating if you have been frsutrated by the limitations of the in built software.
Wildpalm are currently offering up to 60% off all their Series 60 Games and Emulators for a limited time. With delights such as thier Gameboy Emulator and 3d Action in Meltdown, it's probably worth a look at the demo versions to see if it's worth it.
mtvoid have announced an update of their ControlFreak program which allows you to control various aspects of your PC (via Bluetooth) from your phone. You can control your music player (WinAmp), the PC mouse and keyboard and view your computers screen on your phone.
Lonely Cat Games have updated their excellent Series 60 e-mail client - Profimail - to version 1.10. The program now supports entry of text by T9 and interfaces with the phones address book which mean the two negative omissions from the first release are fixed.
Well, Avant-Go asked it's readers what must have features should be in a mobile device, and here's the top 3. Calendar and Contacts list... Easy Sync to PC.... Great Battery Life. How well does your device measure up? 9 more items are behind the link.
Someone must have knocked some sense in the guys from Actimagine since they finally decided to offer a end user package of Mobiclip for the price of 15.90 euro. It has reached version 3.0 and it doesn't support every Symbian device. You can download a trial version here.Those who don't know what Mobiclip is, read on.
And theymake good reading. They've hit all their targets... 19.2 million Symbian OS handsets in the world, over 3,200 applications available, 38 products in development ...and while they acknowledge it's still not a significant percentage of the worlds mobile phone sales, they are working to get the OS into the mid-tier high volume phones to push those numbers higher.
Ever worried about all the passwords and pin numbers you store in a word file on your phone? Then let PowerSafe from Symbianware put you at ease. A two panel view of all your entries on one side, and details on the selected entry on the other side keeps the familiar look and feel of the Communicator. You can also attached word and sheet files, and these are also encypted when you exit PowerSafe.
